Thanksgiving

Well, it is Thanksgiving weekend and we have SO much to be thankful for! A warm, safe house. A fantastic family. A God who is so loving and gracious and keeps all His promises. The best husband I could have ever hoped for. Good jobs. Good doctors and medicine. The list could go on and on. But of course I also am so grateful for this so-far healthy pregnancy! Sometimes it still doesn't seem real. I am now 9 weeks and starting on my third month!

I did a lot of thinking about this little one recently. All the things I hope for it and desire for it's future. I want it to get all the strengths from its parents, as well as our extended family. I know it doesn't work that way, because if this little one did not have weakness, then it would not need Jesus. But one can always hope, right?? So here is what I was thinking and hoping for our sweet child:

Little one, I pray God will give me and your dad wisdom to teach you these things. I want you to be gentle, kind, humble, and serving like your father. I want you to know about the land and Montana like your great-grandparents the Tatarkas and the Glidewells. I want you to be slow to anger and good to people like your Papa Glidewell. I want you to be intelligent and business-savvy like your Grandpa and Grandma Peissig. I want you to be a hard-worker and optimistic like your Nana and Super Gramps. I want you to be a God-chaser like so many of your aunts and uncles. I want you to crave purity like your Uncle Mark. I want you to be wise like your Uncle Paul. I want you to be sweet and kind like your Aunt Sharla. I want you to be musical like your Uncle Tyson. There are so many other things I could list, but I suppose I will just pray for them as life continues. I will pray for you daily. But please, please, above everything else, I want you to love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, mind and spirit, and follow His perfect plan for your life. May God grant us grace to impart these things to you, so that should you ever stray from His ways, you will find your way back. Or as it says in the Bible "But whether you turn to the left or to the right, your ears will hear a voice behind you saying, 'this is the way, walk in it'."